'vandalism' Tag

• The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal

  October 28, 2009

  With the help of my advisor, Dr. David Ribes, I recently got a chapter of my master’s thesis accepted to the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, to be held in February 2010 in Savannah, Georgia. It is titled “The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal” and focuses on [...]

  posted in Academic Works, Conference Presentations, Published Works, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: Flagged Revisions with Philipp Birken

  July 20, 2008

  From “Flagged Revisions,” a presentation at Wikimania 2008 by Philip Birken. In my opinion, flagged revisions realize the concept of stable versions without making the article actually stable.  It is not a system of voting to approve new revisions – a new revision is approved when only one autoconfirmed user says it is vandalism-free.  Yes, [...]

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger